Schools: Fabulous Flower Art at Middle School
|
| Artist: Emma Sobocinski |
|
| Artist: John Hines |
|
| Artist: Mary Schwarzler |
|
| Artist: Matthew Anastasi |
|
| Artist: Jacynda Ward |
March 15, 2007
By Gina Dianis
Art teacher
Currently on exhibit at the Cornwall Central Middle School is a display of artwork inspired by the artist Georgia O'Keefe, who often painted flowers.
O'Keefe, who was born in 1887, knew she wanted to be an artist when she graduated from high school. She studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at the Art League in NYC. In the mid-1920’s, she began large-scale depictions of flowers as seen close up or enlarged. She is best known for her combinations of abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.
At the middle school, 6th-grade art students created multimedia interpretations of flowers in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe. In the display, entitled “Fabulous Flowers,” art students first drew large contour line drawings of flowers. The flowers were then filled in with colored tissue paper and the background space with watercolor.
“Fabulous Flowers” is on display throughout the hallways at Cornwall Middle School through Spring Break.
Comments:
No comments have been posted.
Add a Comment:
Please signup or login to add a comment.
|
 |
|
